...t not in command.
If some one else had been colonel, and I had been lieutenant-colonel, I do not think I would have felt any trepidation.
Before we were prepared to cross the Mississippi River at Quincy , my anxiety was relieved; for the men of the besieged regiment came straggling into the town.
I am inclined to think both sides got frightened and ran away.
Now, however, he was started; and f...